Grubhub expands campus program with new schools, technology
Grubhub is growing its offering for college students.
The delivery platform has expanded its Campus Dining business to more than 60 schools across the country. Grubhub Campus Dining is the higher-ed-focused part of Grubhub's business that serves college students and directly integrates mobile ordering into campus meal plans. With the service, students can easily find both on- and off-campus dining options and view their available balance on their campus homepage within the Grubhub mobile app.
New campus partners include the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Tampa, the University of Missouri, Howard University and Tulane University. With the addition of these campuses, Grubhub now works with more than 360 universities, up 21% from last year. With the new school additions, Grubhub now reaches half a million new students and serves a total of more than 4.5 million students total.
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"Coming off of a strong 2023-2024 school year, I'm very proud that we're continuing to significantly grow our campus footprint and see such strong adoption of our additional services and solutions with our partners," said Rob DelaCruz, VP and general manager of Grubhub Campus. "We see further opportunity in the campus space, and we're proud to play a role in how students and faculty dine. Our technology allows our partners to operate their dining facilities more efficiently by providing them with the ability to get diners through lines faster and provide a broad range of pickup and delivery innovations."
Grubhub will use automated delivery robots at select campuses. The company partners with Cartken, Kiwibot and Starship to provide robot delivery on college campuses and is expanding to nearly a dozen more schools this semester. New additions this fall include the University of Mississippi, Prairie View A&M University, Howard University, the University of New Mexico and the University of Houston.
Robot delivery is currently found on more than 20 campuses, including The Ohio State University, the University of Arizona, the University of Notre Dame and the University of North Dakota.
Ahead of last year's fall semester, Grubhub brought Amazon's Just Walk Out technology to its campus partners to enhance the dining experience. Users can shop at campus convenience stores and skip the checkout line while payment is automatically deducted from their meal plan, declining account balance, or other linked Grubhub payment methods. Schools that have already adopted this technology include Stevens Institute of Technology, Montclair State University and Loyola University Maryland, with Ursinus College, the University of Virginia and Lindenwood University set to deploy Just Walk Out technology this fall.
Grubhub features 375,000 merchants in over 4,000 U.S. cities.
